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Each year, about 100 workers in the United States die in confined-space incidents. The sad fact is that most of those workers were...

Dewatering is a necessary evil in construction. “Keeping a dry hole is definitely required and necessary to maintain a smooth construction schedule,”...

We often spend more time with our work family than our real family. I use the word “family” because we end up...

The Environmental Policy Innovation Center has announced the launch of a Lead-Free Water Challenge to help incentivize small municipalities to remove and replace their lead service...

As the leader of a large and rapidly growing water/wastewater utility, Richard Cummings needs to make sure I&I issues are identified accurately...

A new study shows average temperatures have increased, annual rainfall has decreased, and dry periods have become longer and more variable across...

Developing guidelines is an important part of NASSCO’s mission: To set standards for the assessment, maintenance, and rehabilitation of underground infrastructure and...

Maintaining system capacity, environmental compliance, and a high level of service for customers are essential for municipal water and wastewater system operators....

When people think of sea level rise, they usually think of coastal erosion. However, recent computer modeling studies indicate that coastal wastewater...

On your average sunny day in West Hartford, Connecticut, approximately 8 million gallons of water flows through the sanitary sewer system on...

With leaking and burst water pipes costing water authorities and consumers time and money, as well as wasting a precious resource, researchers...

Caught between climate change and multi-year droughts, California communities are tapping groundwater and siphoning surface water at unsustainable rates. As this year's below-average...

There’s a lot of emphasis these days on building a great workplace culture. Unfortunately, doing so is a lot like following through...

In Lily Tomlin’s classic SNL comedy sketch, her telephone operator “Ernestine” famously delivers the punchline, “We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re...

Advances in tool technology are happening at a rapid pace, and that brings the opportunity to buy new tools more frequently than...

Lining one or two sewer laterals in a day would be considered great production by anyone’s standards in the trenchless pipe rehab...

As sanitary sewer overflows become less tolerated by state and federal agencies, more utilities are turning to advanced flow monitoring programs to...

A new tool to help decision makers and others assess how sea-level rise and other factors will affect the frequency of high-tide...

It doesn't just disappear. The salt we use every winter — more than 525,000 tons of it in Wisconsin — washes into our...